Table 2.

Maternal sample characteristics for infants included and excluded in the deferred imitation analysis at 12 months.

Maternal Characteristics at Birth
	Cohort Gambia		Cohort UK
	Included	Excluded	Included	Excluded
Maternal age	29.29 ± 6.55	29.95 ± 6.723	33.07 ± 2.99	32.81 ± 2.91
Parity	4.38 ± 2.39	4.38 ± 2.92	1.25 ± 0.49	1.45 ± 0.61
Gestational age	39.84 ± 1.93	39.42 ± 1.97	40.37 ± 1.29	39.98 ± 1.36

Note. No group-differences were found on the above indicators after FDR correction for multiple comparisons.